Today’s Communiqué – 7.12.21

1. What Type of JCA CEO Does Your Community Need?

2. Arkansas Center for Health Disparities Distinguished Speaker Series Welcomes Scout, MA, PhD. – “The Leading Edge of LGBQTI Social Justice in Tobacco & Cancer”

3. ACHANGE & the Arkansas Bankers Association Hosts Housing Conversations: Economics, Equity, and Access

4. Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Announces 2021 Dream Keepers College Tour


1. What Type of JCA CEO Does Your Community Need?

Tell Us What You Want to See in JCA’s New CEO!

The people we serve at Just Communities of Arkansas–which is every human being who lives and visits the Natural State–have a right to be informed and engaged in this process of choosing our organization’s next leader who will affect the JCA services and programs designed to serve you. This survey is an opportunity for you to honestly tell the 2021 JCA CEO Search Committee what you would like to see in our next executive leader. Your responses to this survey will be kept anonymous and will only be reviewed by the Search Committee.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SURVEY.

Thank you for your feedback!

Sincerely, Joyce Elliott (she/her) & Sheridan Richards (she/her) Co-Chairs, 2021 JCA CEO Search Committee


2. Arkansas Center for Health Disparities Distinguished Speaker Series Welcomes Scout, MA, PhD. – “The Leading Edge of LGBQTI Social Justice in Tobacco & Cancer”


3. ACHANGE & the Arkansas Bankers Association Hosts Housing Conversations: Economics, Equity, and Access

Click here to learn how to register


4. Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Announces 2021 Dream Keepers College Tour

For Immediate Release

DuShun Scarbrough, Executive Director [email protected] (501) 683-1300

Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Announces 2021 Dream Keepers College Tour

Little Rock, Arkansas-The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, a division of the Arkansas Department of Education, announces the 2021 Dream Keepers HBCU College Tour in partnership with Rock Region Metro.   The Dream Keepers HBCU College Tour will provide students, ages 16 and older, with the unique opportunity to visit college campuses in a single trip. The students will also learn about admissions requirements and financial aid. 

Thursday, July 29, 2021, 8:30 AM-4:00 PM, the tour will depart from the Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, 906 Broadway, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201. The tour will include free meals and visits to the following campuses:

  • Shorter College, South 604 N Locust St, North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114
  • Philander Smith College, 900 W Daisy L Gatson Bates Drive, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
  • Arkansas Baptist College, 1600 Doctor M.L.K. Jr Drive, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202

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